Professor of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin. Health Economics, Social Genomics, Networks. Views my own.
https://fletcher.lafollette.wisc.edu
https://substack.com/@jasonmfletcher
Jason Fletcher
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Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
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Mentoring Session Notes (Part 3): What Cover Letters Are Actually For
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Sherry Glied and I have critiqued the recent analysis on the impact of Medicaid work requirements on poverty. It is linked here: : www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Unfortunately, Professors Mulligan and Bai who appear to have led the work get a failing grade on this one.
In Print! Can clean water in early life shape longevity decades later? Using water filtration programs in 25 cities, @hamidnb.bsky.social & @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social find that childhood exposure to filtered water increased male longevity by 3 months. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734081
The First Domino: when should we blame AI for misleading us?
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Mentoring Session Notes (Part 2): Managing Research "Lanes"
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Mentoring Session Notes (Part 1): Planning for tenure letters
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The Last Human in the Research Loop
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AI agents are not (yet) your Coauthor. They are a Fleet of Weird RAs.
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Moving the goalposts when evaluating AI
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On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
ASHEcon 2026 wrapped up in Minneapolis last week, and I thought I’d post a few of the main questions I heard in the early scholars mentoring sessions on Sunday.
